BuddyPress 1.5 Release Candidate 1 (and BuddyPress 1.2.10!)

Over the past few weeks, we’ve released three – count ‘em, three! – beta versions of BuddyPress 1.5. During that time, we’ve gotten some great feedback, and some great patches, from our user and developer community. With a clear mind (and a clear milestone), today we are releasing the BuddyPress 1.5 Release Candidate.

The “release candidate” label means that we think that the current codebase is rock solid, and this final stage in the release cycle gives users one more chance to find any remaining kinks before the stable release.

We’d like this RC period to be short – we’re as anxious for the 1.5 release as you are! – so please give the RC a go in your test environments, and try the latest code in a live testbed at testbp.org. As usual, we recommend that you don’t run pre-release code in mission-critical production environments.

In addition (it’s been quite a weekend): available immediately is BuddyPress 1.2.10. This minor update includes an important security fix, as well as fixes for a few deprecated function calls. It’s a recommended update for all BuddyPress installations. Upgrade through your WordPress Dashboard, or download BuddyPress 1.2.10 from WordPress Extend or BuddyPress.org.

Unlike any other day(I would be here to inform about a possible bug), today I am here to tell you that I am using bbPress 2.0 RC 5 and BuddyPress 1.5 RC on http://www.opes.es and everything seems to be working perfectly.
I’ve even translated almost the whole POT file to Spanish, the result is awesome.
Thank you very much for these platform.

*By the way, I know I shouldn’t be using a “not released” software version on the site but… I was looking forward to begin so it worths the risk… take it as a complement…

Is there any possibility the 1.5 can disable the pluggin to show some of the meaningless activities. For example, I have Transposh translation pluggin. Each time I manually correct the automatic translation, the “activity” lists each phrase/sentence I have just translated. For one article, it displays tons of translation activities. I spend quite time to delete all of them, but very often next time when I visit the activity page again, many of them still come back. I know the 1.5 will have very good function on “activity”, but I have to disable it just because of that reason. I really hope I can enable that great “activity” function. Thanks.

I’m new to BP started working on it a couple weeks ago and customized it pretty well, I’m excited to hear that a new version is coming out. Would appreciate if someone can help me with the following:

– where can I find a list of new features in this version?

– since 1.5 is skipping versions it seems to be a huge upgrade, when it is released, is there ANY benefit in installing WP/BP on a fresh installation or is simply upgrading via dashboard 100% the same?

– one of you guys mentioned to have rolled back, is there a feature in WP where you can rollback plugins / BP versions, do you simply re-install it, or are roll backs done from manual backups?

This new version is pretty badass. It is already looking awesome in my wordpress theme. I am still trying to sort out how the bbpress 2.0 plugin works with the buddypress plugin. Overall, this is a huge step up from the older versions. Really excited about this.

@djpaul thanks, I added it to wp-config.php (i did before as well, just wrote the post wrong) Although I still did not see a change. However I did figure out the problem and here it is to help another hapless soul:

but the ‘ marks were the wrong kind of ‘ marks if you get what I mean. I changed those with the seemingly same ones from my keyboard and it worked fine. In Coda the BP_USE_WP_ADMIN_BAR was written in black instead of orange which helped sort that out.

@AllMad.org @InterMike your site is great, thanks for advertising it here, however, I think it miss the: proudly powered by WordPress and buddypress. this is not nice, even I’m not a developer but I feel it’s rude to remove this and waste all the work people did to offer you this script for free.

OK, what am I doing wrong? I download from the link at the top of the page but I cannot install it in my development WP site. Thanks. I am not a noob to web development but working with WP and BP for the first time.

Did anybody test BP 1.5 RC 1 with BP Gallery 1.0.9.1 (www.buddydev.com)?!?
With Beta 3 everything was working – with RC 1 it’s broken, at least on my test installation. Just went back to Beta 3 and everything is OK. Any idea…

@boonebgorges «Gallery» page is empty with RC 1. One is able to create a Gallery but it’s not displayed on the Profile. Only Galleries within Groups are OK… Your account is still activ. Log in if you like. A brand new module is there. But it’s BP Beta 3. Later on I can re-install RC 1 if you like…

@schwarzaufweiss You may want to contact Brajesh about it. I’d be surprised if any of the (quite minor) changes between 1.5-beta-3 and 1.5-rc-1 had big consequences, but he will be in a better position to test than I am.

Almost…becouse Achievements plugin had some “Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /../../../../wp-content/plugins/achievements/includes/achievements-core.php on line 304″ problems

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